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Hey Nan,

I've missed you like crazy too! I really enjoyed reading your summary of our visit, it was amazing and special to finally meet you and your family in person. You got some great pictures of our visit; I would post some of my own, but I only took closeups, oops. BTW, I ended up with almost 4000 pictures from the trip!

The camp meeting was every bit as special as JustAmy predicted. The youth teaching was extremely different for me and PowerBaby because all of the ages were taught together. At our church, there are usually 20-30 kids, broken into 5 separate age classes. Rachel's lesson had to engage ages 3-17, as a result, the class activities were comic and simple for the small fry but capable of provoking a more serious self-examination in the older members. It was a unique gift. Thank you.

I’ve got to get that CD. Does it come with dance instructions?

All of the band's work is available at moshavband.com, I think we were listening to the "Return Again" CD. Unfortunately, it won't come with dance instructions.

I'd even be willing to bet that each congregation has their own choreography to each of those songs. That's the interesting thing about worship dance, it can come in infinite different patterns and still fulfill its purpose. In other words, you can fearlessly change it up if the existing pattern becomes boring. Often, the best kind of worship dance is so slow and simple and monotone that you can focus on worshiping rather than your feet; some people even close their eyes. Personally I don't really recommend it, I tend to lose my sense of direction when I'm not looking and the people around me are strangely fond of their toes!

Does Vit B keep you awake? I take a lot of B12. It does not keep me awake.

The drugstore "5 Hour Energy" product is mostly B12 with some B3 & B6, also a cup of coffee's caffeine dose. However, I think Daddy was taking just straight vitamin B. I don't know exactly what was in it, but it worked. This college student is looking forward to trying them out in Fall! MUCH cheaper than campus coffee!

Speaking of staying awake, its WAY past my bedtime!

"[My kids]'ve lived happily in one house all their lives and gone to school here too,"

I can only think of two of my friends (past & present) who have intact families. Makes me feel blessed and incredibly lucky. Thank you Daddy

(Carry_Okie is my Dad)

It is kida long. Pease let me know what you think.

I guess I should look again before I post!

Here 'tis: (drum roll please) Seven Stars for Aslan

Happy 4th

My instinct is that morality is more subjective, but according to the dictionary: virtue is moral excellence, moral is according to the rules of right conduct, and morality is conforming to the rules of right conduct.

I suppose the differnece is: virtue is morality taken to the next level.

I agree that Constantine did not create the church, and therefore the papacy, but he did contribute a great deal to what became the Catholic church: buildings, protection, huge monetary donations, excused the clergy from required civil duties, and he "took action against a range of non-Christian cults."

He did not actually create the church, but he took it from a persecuted network of organizations to the dominant Imperial Roman Religion. He came as close to creating it as he could.

You guys seemed interested in my paper “Seven Stars for Aslan” six years ago, so I thought you might like this one too.

You showed an interest in my paper ‘Seven Stars for Aslan,’ some six years ago, so I thought I would ping you to this one.

This paper was co-authored by Freeper PowerBaby, when replying, please post to both of us. We wrote this paper a year ago, PowerBaby was 12, and NattieShea was 13; this is the first paper that we have co-authored. We are homeschooled by our Dad, Carry_Okie.

Our Dad had the idea of analyzing current issues for the underlying moral values, then analyzing Roman history to compare the effects of those morals in ancient times. It took us a year to write and research. As it was difficult for us to decide upon a thesis, our Dad helped us write both our thesis and our conclusion. He also read and commented on several sections to exemplify what he expected. We read most of the books in their entirety, some we read for pertinent information due to time constraints.

Beautiful

Prayers in order

The American Heritage is the object of Chinese Water torture by the Liberals.

One little giant thing at a time.

The "Museum of Tolerance" has a picture of "a flag sewn by Mauthausen inmates for their American liberators..." The inmates over estimated the number of stars needed, so there are fifty four...

The Holocaust was a myth, eh?!

Suprise, Suprise.

At least no one expected to hear about it from THEM.

Thank You Daddy.

I Love You Too.

Everyone whose birthday it is today just got the present of their lives.

I'm pinging my kids to this one, because their home education now has a mandatory course in Steyn.

Double WOW!

Here's another one girls.

Wow.

I completely agree. My dad has been homeschooling me for the past three years and maybe the only thing that I miss is not having P.E with my friends.

My hands feel clammy.